Codecademy launches Reskill USA
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Codecademy launches Reskill USA
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#2> ReskillUSA will close the gap between technical education and employment.
No it won't.
> By connecting students with accessible vocational education programs and employers eager to hire from them, we're training more Americans for the jobs of today.
Yeah because the "jobs of today" all require you to know:
HTML and CSS Javascript jQuery Github
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#3Unfortunate domain name.
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#4Are they targeting outplacement companies?
Microsoft Certification centers used to target job centers. I've been to a Microsoft training and couldn't believe somebody without understanding of MS Windows would want to become a certified Windows NT server administrator. Simple answer: "the job center is paying for the training". Well in this case it was for soldiers to find jobs in the open market after their 12month serving time ended.
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#5$12k seems a bit steep.
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#6There once was an island with a population of 100 dogs. Every day a plane flew overhead and dropped 95 bones onto the island. It was a dog paradise, except for the fact that every day 5 dogs went hungry. Hearing about the problem, a group of social scientists was sent to assess the situation and recommend remedies.
The social scientists ran a series of regressions and determined that bonelessness in the dog population was associated with lower levels of bone- seeking effort and that boneless dogs also lacked important skills in fighting for bones. As a remedy for the problem, some of the social scientists proposed that boneless dogs needed a good kick in the side, while others proposed that boneless dogs be provided special training in bone-fighting skills.
A bitter controversy ensued over which of these two strategies ought to be pursued. Over time, both strategies were tried, and both reported limited success in helping individual dogs overcome their bonelessness -- but despite this success, the bonelessness problem on the island never lessened in the aggregate. Every day, there were still five dogs who went hungry.
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#7> ReskillUSA will close the gap between technical education and employment. No it won't. > By connecting students with accessible vocational education programs and employers eager to hire from them, we're training more Americans for the jobs of today. Yeah because the "jobs of today" all require you to know: HTML and CSS Javascript jQuery Github
I actually asked their CEO about this on PH. Building websites != engineering, and we need more of the latter. I do think there's a place for skills-based learning to take up some of the slack, but simply rehashing the same Rails/JS tutorials isn't going to cut it unfortunately.
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#8We need a good tutorial for TempleOS. It will last longer than Windows or Linux.
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#9> 3 months: How long it takes a dedicated beginner to learn the skills to qualify for computing and web development jobs.
I'm genuinely curious as to how many people here, who either program or hire programmers, will say that the above is a true statement.
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#10> 3 months: How long it takes a dedicated beginner to learn the skills to qualify for computing and web development jobs. I'm genuinely curious as to how many people here, who either program or hire programmers, will say that the above is a true statement.
It took me 5 month to get my first Java job (every day 4hrs after work; 8 hours on weekends). And now I see how lucky I was to get that junior position. It took almost year to hone basic Java skills and learn necessary basic stack of technologies to do plain Java projects. It took another year till I got my enterprise stack skills to acceptable level. Every technology/framework is 1-1.5k pages book reading and hours of practice just to start doing something useful. And then you have to repeat that every year, because frameworks updating faster than you can learn, priorities shifting, you forget things.
Edit: However, I must say, ^ was done almost in vacuum: I had noone to ask and had limited access to the Internet (sorry, no Stackoverflow for you :). With good instructors, well-prepared programs and strict discipline in classromms, I would say it is possible to get into entry-level positions.